Doing consistent work of one type can be exhausting. In an interview with Variety, Evan Peters talked about wanting “a little break from darker roles” following his time in Netflix’s Dahmer series, which looked at the serial killer’s life and the lives of his victims, and how their deaths affected their families.
Dahmer was a long, dedicated process for Evan Peters. He had lost 15 pounds in the early episodes and gained 20 pounds of muscle in the latter half. He then became an executive producer, so he had more duties beyond acting to looking at footage to improve the show. Now, after all that time and work is behind him, he is looking for something “mundane” rather than playing another serial killer.
“I’m going to take a little break from darker roles and explore the light. It would be interesting to me to play something that is a little closer to home, a little more mundane, and to explore the details of those kinds of experiences.”
Evan Peters wants a break from darker roles after Dahmer; wants the mundane
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The 35-year-old actor has had a range of different characters in his career. In ten years of American Horror Story, HBO’s Mare of Easttown with Kate Winslet and Jean Smart, the actor has done plenty of grim projects about murder and trauma. Still, he has found time to do more fun work. He was Quicksilver in the Fox X-Men franchise; a part in Marvel’s first MCU TV series, WandaVision; and comedies like Kick-Ass.
Evan Peters has spent plenty of time finding success with Ryan Murphy, like in Dahmer, which became a massive hit after 1 billion hours viewed in 60s days, putting it with Stranger Things season 4 and Squid Game as one of the biggest shows on the platform. Still, a biopic on an infamous murderer was met with backlash. Families of the victims said they were not contacted, although Murphy said that he reached out to 20 families without hearing back. It was faced with critics over the show’s depiction of the killer and how it tackled its subject manner.
The success of Dahmer has it renewed for more Monster series, but from Evan Peters’ statement, it sounds like he may not take part in any of those when they get made. Murphy has not weighed in on the casting or what real-life murderers he will portray on the small screen next.